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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Annenberg Media Streaming Video
The Annenberg Media website at learner.org is a resource that offers on-demand streaming video for “schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other community agencies”. These are top-notch programs, several which I recognize as having been used … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Politics, Science, Video, Web Design
Tagged Annenberg Media, Education, History, Libraries, Microsoft Windows, streaming video
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Book Covers and Copyright
I missed this last month, but a post on the LibraryLaw Blog suggests that book jackets may be protected under a clause in the copyright law aimed for advertisements and commentaries. found via LISNews
Posted in Books, Copyright, ILS, Libraries, Web Design
Tagged book covers, copyright law
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Footnote
Footnote is an interesting social network: it contains entries and social linking for dead people. The concept seems morbid at first thought; however, it does provide a structured place to remember the dead, as well as provide links to others … Continue reading
Posted in Death, History, Online Services
Tagged Death, Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls, social network, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Web 2.0
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Librarians, Sarah Palin, and Fact Checking (oh my!)
Jessamyn has the best overview of the Sarah Palin / Librarian debate that I have seen so far. The key to this, and to any other emotionally charged story, is to check your facts, and remember that everyone gets it … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged Bankruptcy, Fact Checking;, librarian, New York Times, Sarah Palin, UAL;, United Airlines
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Library Blogs
Walt Crawford (“The Library Voice of the Radical Middle”) has created a list of nearly 600 library-related blogs. It is interesting to scan the list and marvel at how many are unknown to me. I suspect that I could spend … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Blogs, Libraries, library blogs
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Harry Potter and the Unfair Use Lexicon
TeleRead has an excellent post dissecting the recent ruling against the author of the Harry Potter Lexicon. It examines the Fair Use aspects of copyright as they apply to this particular case. via LISNews
Posted in Books, Copyright, News, Publishing
Tagged Author, Copyright, Fair Use, harry potter, harry potter lexicon, Publishing
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Kete
Kete is billed as a combination of a digital archive, a content management system, and collaboration tools meant to allow the storage, control, and access of digital content. Developed as an outgrowth of the Koha project, Kete has a pedigree … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software
Tagged collaboration tools, content management system, Kete, koha
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Google Chrome
Exciting news in the browser wars: Google is releasing has released a beta version of a web browser that it is calling Chrome. Why does this matter? The open-source browser will feature: Every tab running in isolation from the other … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, News, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Chrome, Google, online software, screen capture;, web applications, web browser, web browsers;, web version;
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SOPAC 2.0 @ Darien Library
After much anticipation, version 2.0 of the Social Opac (SOPAC) went live this morning at the Darien Library in Connecticut. It looks very good… excellent, in fact. I am already looking forward to playing with this version of the software. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, OPAC, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Connecticut, Darien Library, html, John Blyberg, search result page, SOPAC
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Lakes and Rivers
Lorcan Demsey has a post on metadata that does a great job of illustrating two types of data collections by describing them as lakes and rivers. The idea did not originate with him; rather he encountered it via OCLC’s Eric … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Definitions, History, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged analog, Eric Hellman, Heraclitus, lakes, Lorcan Demsey, rivers, Rivers Lorcan Demsey
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